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Old October 31st, 2004, 11:55 PM
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Sorry, one more quick point. As I said, my wife gets many stares from people when she mentions we have a pitbull. I think she's lost track of how many times that people have said to her, "You don't look like someone who has a pitbull!". Part of the problem is that people have this pre-conceived notion that pitbull owners are men with fragile egos who like to look scary and walk with a scary dog. The majority of owners aren't what the public thinks they are. And we need to show that it is, as the president of the OSPCA said, a "certain sub-set of owners". We need to show that those owners are, in fact, a sub-set, and not the average owner. But not by saying, "well, they're lower income, that's the problem". But by looking at these individual owners themselves (the ones who's dogs have attacked), and finding the issue. I don't think it's thier income that makes them bad owners (I know when we were struggling when I was younger, our dog was loved by everyone).
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